This physicist says consciousness could be a new state of matter – ScienceAlert

Follow the link, which, rather like a network of neurons, leads to more links. My frontal lobes haven’t been this excited since I read Douglas Hofstadter’s EGB, a book so heavy that even in paperback it has its own gravitational field. And that was when it first came out in paperback, mid 80s I’m guessing.

Nobody seems to know what to make of it at this very early stage, so far be it for me to try.
Go read. But take it slow, pause every minute or so, to let the mind deboggle…